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Sunday, 26 June 2016

As Sri Lanka marked the second anniversary of the Aluthgama carnage, Bodu Bala Sena’s Galagoda Atte Gnanasara
has threatened to repeat the Aluthgama mayhem in Mahiyanganaya if the
government and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) fail to take steps
to ensure that the police in that area work without partiality.

Addressing a Satyagraha mid this week (21st), to protest against the
arrest of two youth from the area, Gnanasara told the IGP to take action
against the senior police officers in the area, as they are not working
in accordance to the wishes of the Buddhist clergy. “If you can’t
handle them, tell us, we will take care of them. We only need about 50
people to take care of them, and we are not scared to go behind bars,”
he said.

Gnanasara added that the Buddhist community was losing patience as
the Muslim community was continuing to work in a manner to penalize
them, and testing the Buddhist community’s patience. “First they threw
rotten eggs at our teachers in Madawala, and then they tried to build a
mosque which was taller than the height of the Dalada Maligawa,” he
said.

He accused the Mahiyanganaya police officers of siding with the
minority community and instead penalizing the Buddhists. “Even the
Buddhists can’t demonstrate, because action is taken against them by the
police for voicing their disapproval. There is no democracy or
yahapalanaya in the country,” he said.

Gnanasara added that if the Buddhist continued to be penalized and if
action was not taken by the IGP to address the issue, then the BBS will
show its power to the country by getting everyone in Mahiyanganaya to
shut down the entire area.

He added that if they don’t receive a favourable response from the
IGP and the government, the BBS will not think twice to commence ‘phase 2
of the Aluthgama’ mayhem.